The Department of History at the University of Texas at Arlington in collaboration with the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington announces the 2013 Webb-Smith Essay Competition as part of the Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures on March 7, 2013. The topic is “Contested Empire: Rethinking the Texas Revolution.” We are looking for students and scholars to submit original, unpublished article-length essays (maximum 10,000 words plus endnotes) that explore Texas during the Mexican period, and which examine the origins and long term ramifications of the events that gave birth to the Texas Republic and its subsequent incorporation by the United States. Preference will be given to papers that attempt to integrate the early nineteenth century Texas borderlands into a broad, geopolitical or multicultural interpretive framework, or which seek in other ways to connect the region and its peoples to a wider world. A prize in the amount of $1000 will be awarded to the author of the winning entry. The winning entry will appear in an edited monograph, to be published by Texas A&M University Press. The deadline for submissions is January 28, 2013 (date of receipt). Essays should be submitted electronically to the coordinator of the 2013 Webb Lecture Series, Dr. Jennifer Lawrence at jlawrenc@exchange.uta.edu.

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